The fine folks at Stereogum premiered the humorous new video from Shark? Watch “California Grrls” now if you want a cheap laugh and come see them play with Mean Creek and Radical Dads tonight at Death By Audio in Brooklyn if you want a cheap rocking. From Stereogum: “NYC garage quartet Shark? seem to inhabit [...]

If you could stare into the eyes of death, The Cure and Interpol may or may not be waiting behind those blank pupils for you. But you can bet they’re there for Twin Tigers, where the blackest depths come with a slight tinge of goth-pop. These Georgia peaches build bittersweet melodies from a put-on despair, [...]

Our pals Brooklyn Vegan premiered the new video from Twin Tigers. Athens, GA’s Twin Tigers will release their second album, Death Wish, next week (4/9) via Old Flame Records. You can get a taste of the gothy psych therein via first single “Racecar,” which we’ve got the premiere of the video in this post. The [...]

Formed as a bedroom recording project by singer/guitarist John Robinson in 2008, Turf War became a full band in mid-2009 and began to grow a local following in their hometown of Augusta, GA before moving to Atlanta. Their style is gritty, Southern-tinged indie punk rock, with major influences from The Replacements, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bruce [...]

Twin Tigers just wrapped work on their second full-length, Death Wish (out April 9) , at a studio “on loan from Interpol,” according to the Athens, Georgia band’s website. But recording space isn’t the only thing this foursome shares with those former kings of downtown New York — “Racecar,” our first peek at Twin Tigers’ [...]

NYLON said that “The first track off of Millionyoung‘s upcoming album makes us smile.” It’s not just us who enjoy listening to it; Diaz lists it among one of his favorites to work on while putting together his new album, Variable, which comes out in February. “It was a lot of fun, sort of a different approach [...]

  MTV Hive premiered the latest cut off the brand new Mean Creek LP, comparing it to a cross between The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, and Yuck. Check out ‘Come On Before It’s Gone’ over at MTV Hive now! Check them out along the west coast as they continue their tour with Counting Crows. As Adam [...]

Our pals at Vice premiered the awesome new mp3 of “Baby Be” from The Pharmacy. The new album from the Seattle trio, Stoned & Alone, is out now digitally and on CD/LP on 11/19/12 via Old Flame and on Tape from Burger Records!

Spin Magazine announced the upcoming Battery EP from Your Youth and premiered the first mp3 off the EP “Thick Gold (Bodied).” Though Your Youth describe themselves as a “loud alternative band from Brooklyn,” the duo’s white-knuckle pop-punk suggests maybe they somehow snuck over here from the Pacific Northwest. “Thick Gold (Bodied),” a jouncy cut from [...]

A big thanks to our friends at Spin Magazine for premiering the great new track from Yuno (fka unouomedude). “Last summer, Jacksonville’s unouomedude made online waves with the digital single ‘Frequency,’ a rickety piece of fuzzy beach-pop. Now under the name Yuno, he has returned with new single ‘Sunlight,’ which adds more twinkly keyboards but [...]